In this episode, host Marcus Rivera sits down with Alice Thomas, VP of Project Development at Meridian Clean Energy, and Seif Gomaa, a senior interconnection analyst, to unpack the structural challenges facing utility-scale solar today. From land control to grid queue management, they cover the unglamorous work that separates projects that get built from ones that stall.
Alice and Seif share hard-won lessons on stakeholder alignment, data room discipline, and how integrated project management platforms are changing the way development teams collaborate across disciplines. If you’re building a utility-scale pipeline, this episode is required listening.